Scientists want to store animal sperm and egg samples on the MOON as ‘insurance policy’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9345693/Ark-Scientists-want-store-animal-sperm-egg-samples-MOON.html To protect Earth’s species diversity, we presently store genetic material in vaultsMaterial including seeds and spores could be used to recover lost speciesBut gene banks on Earth are vulnerable to the catastrophes they insure againstUS experts propose to more safely store specimens in lava tubes on the moonThe deposits would be cryogenically frozen and […]
Meet the Climate Change Activists of TikTok: ‘A crop of eco-creators is bent on educating their followers about the looming global disaster’
https://www.wired.com/story/climate-change-tiktok-science-communication/ Meet the Climate Change Activists of TikTok A crop of eco-creators is bent on educating their followers about the looming global disaster. Can their message translate into action? WHEN LOUIS LEVANTI woke up one morning last September, climate change wasn’t on his mind. “I was never huge into researching climate change, but I was […]
Wind and solar reliance threatens to black out the US – Risky ‘intermittent, weather- & climate-dependent power sources’
https://www.thegwpf.com/wind-and-solar-reliance-threatens-to-black-out-the-us/ The very prospect of a nation basing its entire energy security on intermittent, weather- and climate-dependent power sources ought to frighten any sane person. A doctrinaire green energy program risks blacking out the US. […] Instead of the promised nirvana of 100% renewable energy, the overhaul would inevitably end in chaos with exploding electricity […]
Woke Meat Is Coming: Roast Cockroach & Other Impossible Delicacies
https://wmbriggs.com/post/34809/ BY BRIGGS Children used to be able to see on TV crocodiles swallowing gazelles, lions gutting zebras, hyenas mangling lions, cougars beheading rabbits, wolves tearing into deer, bears doing to salmon what can’t be printed on a family site, giant river otters beating the snot–and innards—out of crocodiles, and vultures finishing off what was left. […]
Flashback 1995: New York Times failed 2020 prediction: Most East Coast Beaches ‘Gone in 25 years’
https://realclimatescience.com/2021/03/new-york-times-most-east-coast-beaches-gone-by-2020/ by Tony Heller In 1995, the New York Times predicted “most of the beaches on the East Coast of the United States would be gone in 25 years” Scientists Say Earth’s Warming Could Set Off Wide Disruptions – The New York Times Barack Obama believes in the science, and just bought a $15 million home […]
Claim: Face masks are a ticking plastic bomb – ‘Cannot be readily biodegraded’
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/03/10/face-masks-are-a-ticking-plastic-bomb/ By Charles Rotter University of Southern Denmark Recent studies estimate that we use an astounding 129 billion face masks globally every month – that is 3 million a minute. Most of them are disposable face masks made from plastic microfibers. – With increasing reports on inappropriate disposal of masks, it is urgent to recognize […]
Covid Masks Are Now Polluting Beaches, Coral Reefs
https://climatechangedispatch.com/those-pesky-covid-masks-are-now-polluting-beaches-coral-reefs/ A BBC film crew has recorded heartbreaking footage of a once-beautiful coral reef in the Philippines choked with floating PPE equipment and discarded surgical masks. Clearly, this is a serious and growing problem. According to the BBC report: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is washing up on coral reefs close to the Philippine capital, Manila. According to […]
Gas prices already going up after Biden clamps down on drilling
https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2021/03/10/shocker-gas-prices-already-going-biden-clamps-drilling/ By JAZZ SHAW Posted at 2:31 pm on March 10, 2021Among some of the earliest announcements coming out of the White House after Joe Biden’s inauguration was a promise to clamp down on drilling, particularly on federal lands and offshore. While this all has to be done in stages, the oil and gas industry […]